Fletcher Hanks, who worked under pseudonyms such as Henry Fletcher, Barclay Flagg or Hank Christy, is one of the more mysterious comic book artists active in the late 1930s and early 1940s. His work stood out for its weirdness and lack of craft, but little is known about the artist himself. Among his comic book heroes are 'Tabu, Wizard of the Jungle', 'Fantomah Mystery Woman of the Jungle', the lumberjack hero 'Big Red McLane', and the cosmic superheroes 'Stardust, The Super Wizard' and 'Space Smith', which appeared in Fantastic Comics from Fox Publications in 1940. Little is known about the artist's fate since he left the comics field in the early 1940s.
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